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Saharan Rock Art
Author | : Augustin Holl |
Publsiher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0759106053 |
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The Neolithic rock images of Iheren, Algeria are the starting point for Augustin Holl's careful analysis of the iconography of Saharan rock art. Created in the third millennium B.C., the Iheren murals are over 3 meters wide and contain multiple compositions that present an allegorical depiction of the lifeways of Tassilian pastoralists in the Sahara. Holl approaches his task as an archaeologist, examining the various strands of evidence icons, ideas, motifs, colors, and sizes-and weaving them together into a story that offers a window on the pastoralist worldview through the semiotics of their art. His deconstruction and synthesis of this corpus of material should be of interest to African archaeologists, rock art specialists, art historians, and cultural anthropologists alike."
Round Heads
Author | : Jitka Soukopova |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2013-01-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781443845793 |
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The Central Sahara is considered the greatest “museum” of rock art in the world, containing several thousand prehistoric and recent images. The oldest paintings, called Round Heads, originated during a humid phase in the 10th millennium before present and they were created by dark-skinned hunter-gatherers living in the Algerian and Libyan mountains. Rock shelters show mainly anthropomorphic figures with body paintings and other embellishments testifying ancient rituals and ceremonies. Only two animal species – antelope and mouflon – appear to be as important as men and women; mixed with them on the same walls, these animals had a fundamental place in the ideology of the period. Since the discovery by Europeans in the 19th century, research in the Sahara has been scarce due to the difficult working conditions and to the problematic politics associated with national permissions. The rock art and the archaeology have always been treated as separated disciplines and only rarely were the paintings associated with a material culture. They have been described and classified but not interpreted because it was considered unachievable. Using interdisciplinary studies, this book approaches the previously neglected fields of the study of Saharan rock art, and it proposes new ways to research the art and the societies that created it.
Saharan Rock Art
Author | : Augustin F.C. Holl |
Publsiher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2004-04-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780759115705 |
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The Neolithic rock images of Iheren, Algeria are the starting point for Augustin Holl's careful analysis of the iconography of Saharan rock art. Created in the third millennium B.C., the Iheren murals are over 3 meters wide and contain multiple compositions that present an allegorical depiction of the lifeways of Tassilian pastoralists in the Sahara. Holl approaches his task as an archaeologist, examining the various strands of evidence—icons, ideas, motifs, colors, and sizes-and weaving them together into a story that offers a window on the pastoralist worldview through the semiotics of their art. His deconstruction and synthesis of this corpus of material should be of interest to African archaeologists, rock art specialists, art historians, and cultural anthropologists alike.
African Rock Art
Author | : David Coulson,Alec C. Campbell |
Publsiher | : Harry N Abrams B.V. |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106015220954 |
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Contains more than two hundred photographs of Africa's rock art, coupled with historical and interpretive analyses, compiled to raise public awareness of the variety, importance, and frailty of these works.
Rock Art in Africa
Author | : Jean-Loïc Le Quellec |
Publsiher | : Flammarion-Pere Castor |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art, Prehistoric |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106017794865 |
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The only book of its kind to examine cave art throughout Africa. The paintings and engravings discovered in African caves are amazing works of art that hold clues to understanding the history of humankind.
African Rock Art
Author | : Burchard Brentjes |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : UOM:39015061396035 |
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Rock Art Studies News of the World
Author | : Natalie R. Franklin,Matthias Strecker |
Publsiher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2008-08-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781782975885 |
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This is the third in the five-yearly series of surveys of what is happening in rock art studies around the world. As always, the texts reflect something of the great differences in approach and emphasis that exist in different regions. The volume presents examples from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the New World. During the period in question, 1999 to 2004, there have been few major events, although in the field of Pleistocene art many new discoveries have been made, and a new country added to the select list of those with Ice Age cave art. Some regions such as North Africa and the former USSR have seen a tremendous amount of activity, focusing not only on recording but also on chronology, and the conservation of sites. With the global increase of tourism, the management of rock art sites that are accessible to the public is a theme of ever-growing importance.
Rock Art Studies News of the World Volume 3
Author | : Natalie R. Franklin,Matthias Strecker |
Publsiher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2008-08-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781842173169 |
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This is the third in the five-yearly series of surveys of what is happening in rock art studies around the world. As always, the texts reflect something of the great differences in approach and emphasis that exist in different regions. The volume presents examples from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the New World. During the period in question, 1999 to 2004, there have been few major events, although in the field of Pleistocene art many new discoveries have been made, and a new country added to the select list of those with Ice Age cave art. Some regions such as North Africa and the former USSR have seen a tremendous amount of activity, focusing not only on recording but also on chronology, and the conservation of sites. With the global increase of tourism, the management of rock art sites that are accessible to the public is a theme of ever-growing importance.